None of it should be happening is right. I just get a skeezy feeling when articles use language they know will get people thinking one thing when they mean another.
None of it should be happening is right. I just get a skeezy feeling when articles use language they know will get people thinking one thing when they mean another.
It’s horrible, don’t get me wrong. I worry about my own little one, but the distinction is an order of magnitude of a difference in my head. Like the distinction between a troublemaker throwing a lit match in a trash can vs some maniac dousing a building in gasoline.
This is depressing, but it also bothers me that there’s such a large distinction between how the average person would picture a “school shooting” and what these articles are talking about. Is there a name for that in journalism?
Like, if someone told me “there was a school shooting at school X today”, like most people I would immediately picture someone walking into the building and firing indiscriminately at everyone. Not, “a couple of teens got in a fight in the parking lot, and one pulled out a gun”, or “someone shot at the school’s sign”. (Which are also horrible, but I feel like we need separate terms)
From the article:
According to the report, the most commonly known situations associated with such incidents included “escalation of dispute,” “drive-by,” “illegal activity,” “accidental firing of a weapon” and “intentional property damage.”
It’s been an internet thing for long before 2016 (at least mid 00s in my memory), so I don’t associate it with them.
They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I’ve been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.
These are significantly higher than they used to be, but nowhere near some of the most out of touch numbers I’ve seen people claim online.
What an irredeemable monster.
I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where others were from, then sit there in awe. “HONEY, I’m talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!”
I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where people were from, then sit there in awe. “HONEY, I’m talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!”
I think whatever guides are given, they need to be simple.
I delayed making the jump to Lemmy for a while because every time I saw someone explain it, they got into all the complexities of the fediverse that weren’t really relevant to me yet, and it seemed like too much trouble.
Not to mention the less tangible costs too, like the company’s reputation and trust.
Or starting a gold rush for reddit competitors that didn’t exist previously.
That’s a big name to drop out.
I’d help post content if I knew how to make it, lol. I just subbed to lurk.
Yeah, I don’t trust Google hardware enough to spend 2k on something.
I’ve made accounts on a handful of the bigger ones, just to have them. If one is inaccessible for any reason, it seems like a good idea to be able to log into other instances.
As for where I’ll spend most of my time, it’ll probably be in whichever is the most open and least likely to defederate others.
I figured it was just his name. He looks like a Lemmy to me.
It sort of feels like the old days of reddit. I had forgotten how nice it was.
Reddit used to be slowly to refresh a long time ago, before they tweaked how the front page worked. You would pretty much have the top posts all day, and maybe it would change by the evening.
It was slower paced and fostered more discussion before people would move on, but it wasnt as good at giving the novelty dopamine hit compared to a faster churn.
I bet FFXIV could build a community here. It’s still huge!
Because a columbine type of school shooting is different than property damage.
And people writing these articles know that “some destructive teens did donuts in the school parking lot at night and shot the stop sign” isn’t what people think when they say that a “school shooting” has happened.